News Video: blink-182’s Travis Barker Rocks a Napalm Death Shirt While Drumming to Adele’s “Easy On Me” January 7, 2022 2:20pm Though blink-182 would never be called a metal band, they are inherently tied to metal — or maybe metal’s tied to them? — because of how much they’ve promoted living, breathing, and dying for rock […]
New Music New Metal Releases Out Today: 1/7 January 7, 2022 12:42pm It’s Friday, which means two things: giving the week the finger and new music! Tune in every Friday for The Pit’s round-up of new metal releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched underground death metal. […]
New Music Is This New Meshuggah? New Website Offers Rumored Teaser of First Single January 7, 2022 11:04am Last we heard about the new album by Swedish experimentalists Meshuggah was in October, when the band said the record would be out in late 2021; since we’ve obviously passed that date, 2022 seems to […]
New Music Trivium’s Matt Heafy Releases New Solo Track Featuring Testament’s Chuck Billy January 7, 2022 9:12am It’s no secret that we’re big supporters of Trivium — their new album In The Court of the Dragon landed at #7 on our list of the best albums of 2021 — and we’re obviously huge […]
New Music Dark Funeral Drop Crushing New Banger “Let The Devil In” January 7, 2022 8:48am Among the obsidian-armored ranks of extreme metal, Dark Funeral hold a place of respect. For almost 30 years, the Swedish band have played forward-charging black metal with a hard satanic bent, that remains stalwart in […]
News Korn Post Cryptic Teaser Video, Offer Secret Download of New Drum Tracks January 7, 2022 8:25am Back in November, nu-metal legends Korn announced their upcoming new album Requiem, along with the first single “Start the Healing.” Now, the band have posted a cryptic video which in turn leads fans to a free […]
News ‘Wayne’s World’s’ Wayne Was Much More of a True Metalhead In Mike Myers’ Pre-‘SNL’ Sketches January 6, 2022 11:56am In the world of fictional metalheads, few are as beloved and popular as Wayne Campbell, Mike Myers’ hair-sweeping, boner-schwinging host of Saturday Night Live‘s ‘Wayne’s World’ sketches and the star of the movie by that […]
News Testament’s Alex Skolnick Adopts Rapper Persona ‘Skoly-D’ for Anti-MAGA Rap Song “B.I.G. L.I.E.” January 6, 2022 11:12am We’re obviously huge fans of thrash titans Testament, and we love how outspoken guitarist Alex Skolnick has been against the January 6th Capitol riots and the conservative rhetoric that caused them. But now, Alex has […]
News Shinedown Tease New Album With Secret Code on Instagram January 6, 2022 10:15am At this point in their career, Shinedown is the kind of band that can do whatever it wants. Hell, when your lead singer can donate $10,000 to a burgeoning young metal band who had to […]
News Tom Morello Compares Chris Cornell to Edgar Allan Poe, Says Rick Rubin Was “Freaked Out” the First Time They Met January 6, 2022 8:52am Being in one hugely successful band is rad; being in several is proof that you’ve got something special going on. Such was the case with Chris Cornell, whose renowned work fronting grunge progenitors Soundgarden gave […]
